Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-21
NJ GRASi<A.

Omaha listened to Bernhardt and Powderly
one night.
The Fremont court house is crumbling and
ready to fall.
A Supposed mad dog was shot in Rushville
4 few days ago.
Creighton, with a license law, complains of
holes-in the.wall.
Mrs. A. Douglas, Of Omaha, celebrated her
lolst birthday on Monday.
Mumps and measles are spelling fun for
the little folks OF Fremont.
Immigration TO western Nebraska Is said
to be enormous this spring.
Burglars are enjoying the boom In Fremont.
Transactions are Numerous.
a man at CORTLAND claims to have struck
gold ore while digging a well.
The Missouri Pacific extension is expected
in Nebraska City in about four weeks.
Real estate transactions in Fremont since
the first OF the year aggregate 1896, l7s.
The residence OF NJ. l.. Rosstu at Emerson
was burned Saturday night. Loss, 81, 500.
The third bank is soon to be opened In Ne
ligh. Iowa men will back 4, with $50, 900.
The new Presbyterian church at York is to
seat 600 people, and will cost about $40, coo.
They are to nave an opera house at Clear.
water, providing a bonus Of 81 600 is raised.
Bids for the reconstruction Of the soldiers
nome at Grand Island will be advertised soon
The races OF the Red Cloud Driving Park
association will be held from the 25th TO the
18th.
The Bankers Life association Of Nebraska,
with headquarters at Lincoln, has been incor-
porated.
A stock company is soon to be organized
at Hastings 10 put in an incandescent sys-
tenn Of electric lights.
Minden's new creamery will be ready for
business in thirty days. The capital stock OF
50, 900 has been subscribed.
The board OF trade at Ord has received a
proposition from an eastern firm desiring to
locate a paper mill at that place.
1t Is stated that the Rock Island is soon to
build through to Grand Island. Between 25O
anu 300 cars OF material are on hand, and
laborers have already started or The way.
Beatrice is now the division station on the
Union Pacific. Train men Of the Union Pa.
cific and Kansas Pacific division will make
that city their headquarters in the future.
The Elkhorn Valley extension has reached
Albion, Boone county. No regular trains
will be run until the track is laid through to
Oakdale, which will take about thirty days.
The Loup City saloonkeepers contribute s.
a month each for police in addition to their
regular license. The saloonkeeper Is deter
mined to have order maintained If he has to
fight for it.
The two tramps who were arrested Monday
at the coal sheds in Fremont were arraigned
before Justice Kuen on Tuesday, and in de
fault Of bail were remanded to Jail to await
the next session Of the grand jury.
The Second regiment, Nebraska Nationa
Guards, ie to be formed. Companies viii
soon be organized at Chadron, Shelton, Teka
nah, Ord, Stromsburr. Long Pine, Hay
Springs, Nebraska City and Fairbury.
The editor of the Rushville Sun has been
sued for 81, 900 damages for libel upon one {,
C.. Akin. The editor wrote Mr.. Akin inQuir
ing how much he would discount the bill foi
cash and what proportion could be paid in
advertising.
John Fisher, a young man employed by
VIM. Foley, a Burlington and Missouri con.
tractor, was sent to North Bend to get some
checks cashed and transact some other bust.
ness. He has not since shown up, and 1t is
feared that be has skipped the country witt!
the funds.
The North American Cattle company, OF
Antelope county, Is preparing to feed and
fatten 5000 head of cattle the coming fall and
winter. Barns, sheds and cribs to cost $l5, 00O
are under contract. A large elevator Is also
to be built at Clearwater station for the stor-
age OF fodder. The company expects to turn
$50, 600 bushels OF corn, 1000 tons Of millet,
and ., 900 tons Of common hay into beef next
winter, and give surrounding farmers a profit.
able market.
Sutton's amateurs tackled the ''Fruits OF
the Wine Cup" one evening last week. The
heavy villain unconsciously swallowed an
overdose Of TIE fruit and knocked down the
orchestra leader with a chair just as the latter
scraped an acquaintance with 'We Won't go
Home Until morning" 1t is limited that an
envious star loaded the sample bottle with
forty-rod to droduce the artistic effect.
The Hungarian convict, Heraledsky, whose
pardon is sought by influential friends in the
old world, is not entitled to sympathy or con-
sideration unless he is proven insane. The
crime for which he is serving a life sentence
was the murder OF his wife in Colfax county
in 1881. The theory OF lunacy was advanced
at the trial, but it failed to mitigate the
bloody character O. the deed.
TIL commissioners for the insane Wednes-
day examined Frank f.. GrandaIl, a young
man aged %, who was found the day before
in an almost nude condition wandering about
Palmyra precinct, pr%onouncing him insane.
He says his home is in EimwoOd, and he ran
ava because there was a woman there who
was determined to marry him, and he was not
inclined that way. He was taken to the
asylum Thursday morning.
Major j. r. Hanson, representing the COM
pany which proposes to build the Omaha,
Wayne and Yankton railroad, has notified
the committees Of towns interested that he
will meet them in Omaha on the Odd inst, to
consider such propositions as may be offered.
Delegations from Yankton, Harrington,
Wayne and other towns on the proposed line
are expected TO be present and submit offers
OF aid. The people north are enthusiastic on